Bitcoin News – January 2018

In January hundreds of people started putting the Lightning software live already, despite the warnings from developers that it isn’t finished. People are incredibly eager for Bitcoin to scale. A very noticeable change in January was the amount of large companies announcing their plans regarding cryptocurrency services. There were also some impactful decisions from the South Korean government on cryptocurrency trading and we got an overview of all the hard work done in 2017 and the exciting upgrades coming to Bitcoin in 2018.

What the monthly news is about:
Each day, usually around the same time, I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/bitcoin and save them, after which I release them in one batch after the month ended. This gives you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.